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I would estimate 70 minutes 43 seconds using RoboHelp, allegedly per
eHelp marketing lit.
However, I suspect this depends on your resources, the task at
hand--popups, context-sensitivity, etc., and amount of data you have to
create. Moreover, it also depends on the stability of what you are
documented, necessary revisions, and the intrusiveness of your QA
process.
For, truth be told, an 1,800-topic context-sensitive online help project
with popups takes me 15 minutes to create. Really. That is, of course,
using WebWorks Publisher Pro and after the content has been written in
FrameMaker.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Hower [mailto:hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:50 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: re: Estimating online help development?
One thing to keep in mind is if you are using hot spotted graphics. Hot
spotting takes time......lots of time. :-( Especially if you're doing
complex linking with them......<cringe />
Doesn't "Standards for Online Communication" talk about estimating job
times? If not, there's got to be some book out there that does.
Hey, Mysti. Where does that coder-to-writer rule of thumb come from? I
often hear people quoting "rules-of-thumb" and I wonder where they get
them. Experience? Books? Classes? Thin air? If it's from a book, which
one?
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